Oscar Hermes Villordo (May 9, 1928 – January 1, 1994) was an Argentine
writer, critic and journalist.
Oscar Hermes Villordo (May 9, 1928 – January 1, 1994) was an Argentine
writer, critic and journalist.
The Chaco writer was well known for his poetic work. His novels develop a marked homoeroticism. In 1966 the Ediciones Culturales Argentinas published the book Oscar Hermes Villordo with presentation by Manuel Mujica Lainez which includes a selection of his work in verse and prose until that year. He was chosen by the critics and writers of the country to integrate, with eight other poets under forty years of age, the Consulted Anthology of Young Argentine Poetry published by the Fabril Editorial Company, also part of this anthology is the poetry of: Rodolfo Alonso, Juan Gelman, Alejandra Pizarnik, Antonio Requeni, Horacio Salas, Alfredo Veiravé, and María Elena Walsh. Villordo's work is also part of other anthologies in verse, such as Roberto Ledesma's sonnet; Provinces and Poetry of Nicolás Cócaro where the poetry of Villordo accompany that of María Dhialma Tiberti, Julio Ardiles Gray, Emma de Cartosio, Manuel Castilla, Ana Emilia Lahitte, Guillermo Orce Remis and other great Argentine poets. Not to be forgotten should be mentioned his works for La Nueva Poesía Argentina by Nélida Salvador and also the Contemporary Argentine Poetry by William Shand. He cultivated a great friendship with poets and writers such as Vicente Barbieri, José Luis Lanuza, Javier Torre and Manuel Mujica Lainez. He was a member of the Hellenic-Argentine Institute of Culture. During 1962 he traveled to Greece invited by the embassy of that country. He gave lectures, participated in radio auditions, was a member of the board of directors of the Argentine Society of Writers and was a collaborator in several journalistic media such as La Nación, Revista Sur, Atlántida, Billiken, La Gaceta de Tucumán and La Prensa, among others. During the Argentine civic-military dictatorship he had to go into exile. The novels La brasa en la mano (1983), La otra mejilla (1986) and El ahijado (1990), constitute a true trilogy of homoerotic visibility, through the life and customs of the characters, Buenos Aires homosexual men, from the 1950s to the 1980s. The first LGTTBI library in Argentina is named after the writer, a library founded by Pietro Salemme, private, open to the public. Oscar Hermes Villordo died of AIDS at the British Hospital in Buenos Aires on the first day of 1994. In 2016 the personal archive of Oscar Hermes Villordo was donated to the Mariano Moreno National Library of the Argentine Republic. Since then, his scattered correspondences and manuscripts began to gather for safekeeping and public consultation. The writer also prefaced some editions of Miguel de Unamuno, Florencio Sánchez, Nicolás Guillén, and Jean Paul Sartre.
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